Naudé was born in 1984 in Cape Town, where he continues to live. He graduated with a BA Visual Arts Honours degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007.

Naudé had a solo exhibition “The Bovine Prophecy” at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, UK (2020). A group exhibition “Unseen – 35 Years of Collecting Photographs” at The J.Paul Getty museum, Los Angeles, USA together with Master photographers such as August Sander, Malick Sidibé, Walker Evans and William Wegman. (2020). His works has been featured in The HARPER’S Magazine in New York, USA (2020).